Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 49
The glossy part is real volcanic glass shining on the surface because the silica which is used in making glass rises to the top of the cooling lava.
Who acts: glossy part, real volcanic glass, silica · What happens: be, shine, use, make, rise · To what, where: real volcanic glass, surface, silica, glass, top
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glossy part, real volcanic glass, silica), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glass | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 glass | cop |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glass | amod |
| 6 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glass | amod |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 glass | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 surface | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 surface | det |
| 11 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shining | obl |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 rises | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 silica | det |
| 14 | silica | silica | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rises | nsubj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 used | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 used | aux:pass |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 silica | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 making | mark |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 used | advcl |
| 20 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shining | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 top | det |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rises | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 lava | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lava | det |
| 27 | cooling | cooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lava | compound |
| 28 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 top | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the glossy part | real volcanic glass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | real volcanic glass not said here | the surface | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Location | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | the silica | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | glass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product | |||||
| 5 | rise | present | the silica | the top of the cooling lava | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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